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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Bosco transform Bergson's drawer metaphor?
(a) He claimed that the brain is more like a wardrobe with secret space.
(b) He claimed that the brain is not a filing cabinet, but the filing cabinet is a brain.
(c) He claimed that the brain's filing cabinet is used only to file away memories that will be forgotton.
(d) He claimed that the brain is not a filing cabinet but an unstructured jumble of information.

2. What is the ability to imagine?
(a) A method of filling gaps in scientific understanding.
(b) A symptom of mental illness.
(c) A waste of the intelligent mind.
(d) A major power of human nature.

3. When should metaphor be used, in Bachelard's opinion?
(a) Frequently, to add color and variety to expression.
(b) Rarely, only when words are inadequate.
(c) Frequently, to stimulate creativity.
(d) Rarely, only to add complexity to a poem.

4. Many houses are structured in levels, as described in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .,"appealing to what sense?
(a) The sense of superiority.
(b) The sense of vertical rising.
(c) The sense of being closer to God.
(d) The sense of escape.

5. As explained by the author in "Drawers, Chests and Wardrobes," what value does an image have that a metaphor does not?
(a) Aesthetic value.
(b) Humanistic value.
(c) Phenomenological value.
(d) Artistic value.

6. In the works of Edgar Allan Poe, murder and mayhem usually occur where?
(a) In criminal cellars.
(b) In dark attics.
(c) In the imagination.
(d) In childhood homes.

7. For the author, what does a casket metaphorically provide?
(a) The security of surrounding our inner self at death and burial.
(b) A chrysalis for new life.
(c) A finality to mourning.
(d) A barrier against evil.

8. Using a metaphor, a happy household can be compared to what, according to the author?
(a) A poem.
(b) A flourishing nest.
(c) A child's drawing.
(d) A soul at peace.

9. A home of other days is an example of what for Bachelard?
(a) Memories lost in a filing cabinet.
(b) Poetic irony.
(c) Abandonment.
(d) Lost intimacy.

10. What are reverberations as defined by Bachelard?
(a) Internalities, that which we hear.
(b) Externalities, that which we say.
(c) Externalities, that which we hear.
(d) Internalities, that which we say.

11. Bachelard's topoanalysis considers houses with at most how many levels?
(a) Four, excluding cellar and attic.
(b) Four, including cellar and attic.
(c) Two, including cellar and attic.
(d) Three, including cellar and attic.

12. Who, according to Bachelard, is able to enter the hidden space of the extreme?
(a) The scientist.
(b) The psychoanalyst.
(c) The architect.
(d) The poet.

13. Who wrote of "La Redousse"?
(a) Bachelard.
(b) Baudelaire.
(c) Rilke.
(d) Bosco.

14. What romantic notion does Bachelard dispute?
(a) The lover's nest.
(b) Poetic imagery.
(c) The magic of rainbows.
(d) The refuge of the forest.

15. Bachelard wrote of the menagerie of what?
(a) Animal life.
(b) The storm cloud.
(c) Human existence.
(d) The hurricane.

Short Answer Questions

1. When is the value of a house as intimate shelter most evident, according to Bachelard?

2. Which professional professes to understand and interpret images?

3. The author believes that a well-drawn representation of a house inspires observers to do what?

4. To what iconic Van Gogh image does the author compare a bird's nest on the ground?

5. Bachelard, expanding on the work of Rilke, proposes that a box top, like the cover of a pot, may do what?

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